Release Notes

JViews 5.0 Release Notes

This document describes the main changes that have been made to JViews since version 4.0.

Licence Management

To deploy an application created with JViews, a run-time license is necessary for each module of JViews in use. Beginning with Release 5.0 of the JViews Component Suite, a Java License Manager (JLM) is introduced. JLM is intended to help developers remember which modules in the package they have the right to deploy without in any way impeding their development progress.

Here's how it works:

New Component

The JViews Component Suite version 5.0 contains the new Chart Component as well as many new features in all the components of the suite. 

Warning

Version 4.0 (the previous release) was the final release of the JViews Component Suite that supports JDK 1.1. Beginning with this release, the product will require the Java 2 platform (JDK 1.2.2 or later) to be installed.

As you know, JDK 1.2 superceded JDK 1.1 in December of 1999, bringing with it a rich set of low-level rendering capabilities in its Java2D API. JViews then began supporting both JDK 1.2 and JDK 1.1 (with its older AWT technology). Today, the vast majority of our customers are developing new applications with Java2D. Delivering our graphic services solely atop Java2D enables us to make performance improvements that we could not do in the past.

JTGO

JTGO 2.6 is not compatible with this release of JViews. The new JTGO 3.0 release, fully compatible with JViews 5.0 is planned for the first quarter of 2002.

Graphics Framework Changes
Graph Layout Changes
Maps Changes
Gantt Chart Changes
Stylable Data Mapper

 


Previous Release Notes

JViews 4.0 Release Notes

JViews 3.5 Release Notes

JViews 3.0 Release Notes

JViews 2.1 Release Notes

JViews 2.0 Release Notes

JViews 1.1 Release Notes